Motivational Quotes

Art

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Art

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.